Residents of a locality ‘in the central region of Cuba said they had seen an object that fell from the sky and exploded with a great noise, which shook the houses of the place: it is learned from testimonies collected by local television.

In a report released this morning by Rodas, town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that has come to have large size, comparable to that of a bus, before exploding in the sky.

More at the link from the workers’ paradise.

It only took two comments for someone to propose that this is all the result of a secret US weapons program.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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Fail Burton

Good movie. The asteroid mining companies are CIA fronts to lasso an asteroid in case they wish to do a clean-hands strike against an enemy. Julia Roberts finds out, is slapped around with a male co-star half her age and emerges triumphant with a NYTimes headline exposing the whole affair and with her hair perfect.

Given the state of the Cuban economy and their infrastructure, which is to say the least, not much more than a pile of 1950′s era rubble that’s masquerading itself as a country, then I have to ask how the locals could tell the difference between being hit by a rock from space and any given Friday morning?

As poor as Russians are, at least they have embraced capitalist market forces enough to provide people with cars, windows with glass, and functioning cameras and internet connections for documentation. Perhaps some day we will be able to go to Cuba and study etchings on coconuts which document today’s historic astronomical phenomenon…